vedekcobol wrote:One second season ep. I did like was called " The Child, and another one from first season called The BIg Goodbye was a great ep.

The Big Goodbye was fun, but it illustrates a basic repeating theme of many episodes of the newer series:The Holodecks are nothing but trouble! Stay the heck off them! You'll be trapped, or addicted, or a character will become sentient and take over the ship, or an alien will take them over, or something! Shut the damn things down!

Scott Adams (Dilbert) has called holodecks the "last invention", because once they are created, humankind will go in and never come out. Nobody will have any reason to invent anything else ever again.

Is a Holodeck even worse than a pile of Tribbles then?

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill

The scary part is, I can see that happening. A friend of mine raised an interesting question, though: if you are indulging in er, "pleasurable activities" in the holodeck, what happens to the natural results of that when you turn the power off? If there's a mess left over, that might be a deterrent.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -Lazarus Long

Valanthe wrote:The scary part is, I can see that happening. A friend of mine raised an interesting question, though: if you are indulging in er, "pleasurable activities" in the holodeck, what happens to the natural results of that when you turn the power off? If there's a mess left over, that might be a deterrent.

eewwww. I'd rather have a pile of tribbles over the holo deck, at least they work like they are suposed to be it good or bad depending.

Valanthe wrote:The scary part is, I can see that happening. A friend of mine raised an interesting question, though: if you are indulging in er, "pleasurable activities" in the holodeck, what happens to the natural results of that when you turn the power off? If there's a mess left over, that might be a deterrent.

The mess is even worse when you are faced with a virtual Borg Attack!

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

Valanthe wrote:The scary part is, I can see that happening. A friend of mine raised an interesting question, though: if you are indulging in er, "pleasurable activities" in the holodeck, what happens to the natural results of that when you turn the power off? If there's a mess left over, that might be a deterrent.

The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."--Pope John Paul II

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

The holodecks are effin' EVIL. If I ever see one, I'll never step foot in it.

Star Trek makes lots of interesting conversations in class. My teachers have taken a habit to glaring at me if we talk about anything to do with space, because they know that aliens are right around the corner, and I'm parked right there. :P The geeks adore me.

Kaylee: Wash, tell me I'm pretty.Wash: If I were unwed, I would take you up in a manly fashion.Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?Wash: 'Cause your pretty.(Wash and Kaylee, Firefly, Heart of Gold)

It's a broken hearts paradeAnd I'm putting my heart out on displayThere's no masqueradeJust a funeral march for love todayThe band strikes up and they're playing a songDressed in black, and we're singing along to theBroken hearts paradeI've never been better then I am today